Look, I know there are more important issues in the world, and I know this one is a bit of a cliche and ongoing joke, but observing Byron Council workers constructing the footpaths down the bottom of two particular streets in Mullum was no joke. As a self-employed carpenter I found watching them frustrating. I mean we do pay them and the more they actually work the more the community gets done so it is important.
The progress was so painfully slow and it is easy to work out why. Out of the five or six guys on the job, usually one of them will be on the tools actually doing something. Quite often no one appears to be working at all. The others are kicking a footy around, rolling smokes and on their phones.
I have talked to some retired residents on that street who watched them all day and they are amazed at how little they did. Maybe I should just get over it but I think even Council workers should be working while at work. From what I have observed the work ethic or work management is an absolute disgrace and I can only assume we aren’t getting value for money. I am going to try to take this up with Council but open to any other suggestions or feedback to calm my frazzled nerves!
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